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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Vivar say will defeat the French in Spain?
(a) The French need the Spanish to feed them.
(b) Napoleon is going to die young.
(c) The Spanish have a better army.
(d) There are too many hiding places for guerrillas.

2. What does Vivar say when Sharpe tells Vivar he plans to go south?
(a) He will go with him.
(b) There are no open roads to the south.
(c) The British are to the east.
(d) Lisbon is to the north.

3. Who wakes Sharpe in the night in Chapter 6?
(a) Vivar.
(b) A soldier.
(c) A monk.
(d) Harper.

4. What does Sharpe find out the night after the battle with the French?
(a) The French have left Madrid.
(b) The French have taken Santiago de Compostela.
(c) The Spanish army is only thrity miles away.
(d) The French have taken Lisbon.

5. Who, of the men chasing Vivar, knows the contents of the strongbox and where Vivar is going with it?
(a) Colonel Pierre de l'Eclin
(b) Captain Murray.
(c) The man in the black coat and white boots.
(d) Richard Sharpe.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is killed when the French assault the farmhouse?

2. What does Sharpe tell Parker his strategy is after they are in the farmhouse?

3. From whom is Major Blas Vivar hiding a strongbox?

4. What does Williams suggest to Sharpe?

5. What does Major Dunnet tell Captain Murray about the lieutenant?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Sharpe do to talk to the French and what is the French colonel's appearance like compared to Sharpe?

2. What does Vivar asks Sharpe and what does Sharpe decide to do after speaking with Vivar?

3. What does De l'Eclin tell Sharpe about surrender and what does he say about the French army? What does Sharpe think of De l'Eclin's assertion about the French army?

4. What does Sharpe tell the Parkers when they see French cavalry coming and what does he do with his riflemen? Who does he see within the French forces?

5. What does Murray tell Sharpe before Murray dies?

6. With whom does Sharpe dine the first night in the fortress and why do Vivar and Alzaga argue?

7. What does Dunnet order the riflemen to do when the French are charging them and what is Sharpe's response?

8. What does Sharpe have his riflemen do when the French ambush them?

9. What does de l'Eclin accuse Sharpe of and what is Sharpe's response? What does Vivar's brother say?

10. What is the fortress to which Vivar has brought Sharpe and the Spanish troops and what does Vivar say about Spain and the French?

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